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...Canadian energy firms, filed a 7,000-page application in Ottawa and Washington. The group is seeking permission to build a 2,600-mile pipeline from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and Canada's Mackenzie River Delta, across the barren Mackenzie Valley and into the U.S. (see map). The pipeline could eventually provide some 2.25 billion cu. ft. of gas a day for customers in Midwestern and Pacific Coast states-about 3.6% of present U.S. consumption-and an equal volume for Canadians. Bearing a projected price tag of $5.7 billion, the pipeline would likely be the largest privately financed...
...those incongruous specks on the map that once posted the British Empire, the isolated little island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean was no better known than it ought to be. Consisting of two slender strips of sand skirting a great lagoon-"like a V written by a shaky hand," wrote one visitor-it was overrun by forbidding jungle growth, wild donkeys and giant land crabs that, according to the few hundred migratory workers who settled the island and harvested its coconut palms, would mass like an army to attack and devour the unwary stroller...
...vintage year so far for Yale University. First came the revelation that Yale library's famous "Vin-land map" may be nothing more than a wondrously wrought forgery (TIME, Feb. 4). Then last week came a Connecticut Supreme Court challenge to Mory's, the all-male New Haven drinking club, which must now fight to maintain its private-club status in order to continue refusing to admit women (a policy since 1886). The "gentlemen songsters off on a spree" proclaimed in Yale's Whiffenpoof Song may be presented with the uncomfortable choice of finding a watering hole...
Sorenson said last night his first priority as president will be to "institute a new round of master planning to set objectives for Babson and to map the strategy for achieving them...
...later quipped, "I would have been a major general." Even as a cadet Whistler devoted his serious efforts only to drawing. After leaving the Academy, he worked briefly at the U.S. Coast Survey in Washington where, to the exasperation of the director, he embellished his otherwise excellent map etchings with sea serpents and gulls...